The close up
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The extreme close up
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Close up shots are used to show the detail of an object. This usually captures the head and shoulder or the face. In this scene, we use the close up to show the character’s emotion and action in more detail.
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Extreme close ups are used to show closer details on emotion and adds emphasis. In the opening, before fully revealing Leon’s face they use a series of extreme close ups. This adds tension and mystery to the scene. |
Two shot
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Over the shoulder shot
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Two shots are used to show the relationship between two characters usually between the mild chess up. In this scene, the two shot is happening between Leon and the Mafia as he is about to kill him.
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Over the shoulder shots are used to focus on the facing character and blur the less important ones. In this scene, we focus on the Mafia’s face.
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Point of view
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The mid shot
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POV shots are used to put the audience in the character’s position to create connection. In this scene, we are put in the mafia’s place looking at the prostitute walking by.
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Mid shots are used to show us the character’s upper torso, giving us location and what the character might be holding. In this scene, the Mafia’s hench are holding guns. |
The long or full shot
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Extreme long shot or establishing shot
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Full shots usually shows us the whole body, presenting costume, stance, location, and details. In this scene, the Mafia’s hench are looking up the sky and watching out for danger.
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Extreme long shots are used to show location or setting. These are usually used at the opening, which Leon did as the movie shows it New York city setting
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Dolly shot |
Crane and Jib rigs |
In a dolly shot, we use a rig to pan, tilt, and/or track at the same time
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Crane and jib rigs are used to give the DOP (Director of Photography) more control over height and allow fast close up to long shot transitions, location establishment, and fast changes in direction
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Costume, hair, & make-up |
Setting and props |
This helps interpret the personality of a character and determine aspects of their social status, employment, self-worth and/or character development. Some elements are considered props, like hats, scarves, etc. These elements can also set a scene in a certain time period, like WW1 or Ancient Rome
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These are used to capture the atmosphere of the film for the audience. Sets include all that the viewer expects from the time and place that the film is depicting. These can be internal or on location. Props are used to help tell the story visually and bring generic authenticity to the
narrative. Without them, there would be no realism |
Facial expression and body language |
Lighting and colors |
1963_____ |
‘Ready, Steady, Go’ was a British rock/pop music television program broadcast every Friday evening from 9 August 1963 until 23 December 1966. This TV show was produced by ATV to show showcase the up-and-coming stars of the day. Meanwhile BBC’s ‘Top of The Pops’ concerns itself with the top tens and twenties, RSG is ready to perform new talents from less popular artists.
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1964_____ |
‘Top of the Pops’ is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly between 1 January 1964 and 30 July 2006. Top of the Pops was the world's longest-running weekly music show, for most of its history. This show was broadcasted on Thursday evening on BBC One. Most of the music and performances showed on ‘Top of the Pops’ are the week’s best-selling or top tens and twenties. The first band to ever perform in Top of the Pops was The Rolling Stones.
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1966_____ |
‘The Monkees’ is the first album by the band the Monkees. It was released in October 1966 by Colgems Records in the United States and RCA Victor in the rest of the world. It was the first of four consecutive U.S. number one albums for the group, taking the top spot on the Billboard 200 for 13 weeks, after which it was displaced by the band's second album. It also topped the UK charts in 1967. The Monkees has been certified quintuple platinum by the RIAA, with sales of over five million copies.
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1967_____ |
“Strawberry Fields Forever" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. It was released on 13 February 1967 as a double A-side single with "Penny Lane". It represented a departure from the group's previous singles and a novel listening experience for the contemporary pop audience. While the song initially divided and confused music critics and the group's fans, it proved highly influential on the emerging psychedelic genre. Its accompanying promotional film is similarly recognised as a pioneering work in the medium of music video.
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1971_____ |
The Old Grey Whistle Test began on 21 September 1971. As the only regular outlet for non-chart music on television, it provided many seminal musical moments for its viewers, with performances from artists such as Bob Marley, Free, Siouxsie and the Banshees. The first presenter of The Old Grey Whistle Test was rock journalist Richard Williams. He explained the title in the Radio Times: "before a new record is released a rough mix is played to the grey-haired doormen. If they can whistle the tune after hearing it once, it passes the 'old grey whistle test' and is released". Harris took over from Williams and presented the show through the seventies. With the changing musical landscape came new presenters, including Annie Nightingale, Mark Ellen and Andy Kershaw.
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1975_____ |
"Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was written by Freddie Mercury for the band's 1975 album A Night at the Opera. It is a six-minute suite, consisting of several sections, without a chorus: an intro, a ballad segment, an operatic passage, a hard rock part and a reflective coda.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" topped the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks and had sold more than a million copies by the end of January 1976. In 1991, after Mercury's death, it topped the charts for another five weeks, eventually becoming the UK's third best-selling single of all time. It is also the only song to reach the UK Christmas number one twice by the same artist. It also topped the charts in countries including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and the Netherlands, becoming one of the best-selling singles of all time selling over six million copies worldwide. In the United States, the song peaked at number nine in 1976, but reached a new peak of number two on the Billboard Hot 100 after being used in the film Wayne's World (1992). In 2018, the release of Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody brought the song renewed popularity and chart success worldwide. This might just be one of the most popular and iconic rock song of all time |
1977_____ |
Saturday Night Fever was about a 19-year old boy, Tony Manero who lives for the dance floor. Tony Manero was played by John Travolta with his love interest, Stephanie, played by Karen Lynn Gorney. In the movie, every Saturday night, he would go to the local disco and dance. One of the many songs featured in Saturday Night Fever was ‘Stayin’ Alive’ and ‘Night Fever’ by Bee Gees. The movie was directed by Ralf D. Bode. One of the dance scene in Saturday Night Fever was shot 14 times, the cut was seamless, creating a spectacular dance scene for the movie.
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1979_____ |
"Video Killed the Radio Star" is a song written by Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley in 1978. The track was recorded and mixed in 1979, released as their debut single on 7 September 1979 by Island Records, and included on their first album The Age of Plastic. The backing track was recorded at Virgin's Town House in West London, and mixing and vocal recording would later take place at Sarm East Studios.
On release, the single topped sixteen international music charts, including those in the UK, Australia, and Japan. It also peaked in the top 10 in Canada, Germany, New Zealand and South Africa, but only reached number 40 in the US. The accompanying music video was written, directed, and edited by Russell Mulcahy. It was the first music video shown on MTV in the US, airing at 12:01 a.m. on 1 August 1981, and the first video shown on MTV Classic in the UK on 1 March 2010. The song has received several critical accolades, such as being ranked number 40 on VH1's 100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the '80s. It has also been covered by many recording artists. |
1980_____ |
"Ashes to Ashes" is a song written and recorded by English singer-songwriter David Bowie. It was the lead single from the 1980 album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) and became Bowie's second UK No. 1 single. It is also known for its innovative video, directed by Bowie and David Mallet, which at the time was the most expensive music video ever made.
Interviewed in 1980, Bowie described the song as "very much a 1980s nursery rhyme. I think 1980s nursery rhymes will have a lot to do with the 1880s/1890s nursery rhymes which are all rather horrid and had little boys with their ears being cut off and stuff like that." Years later, Bowie said that with "Ashes to Ashes" he was "wrapping up the seventies really" for himself, which "seemed a good enough epitaph for it." |
1981_____ |
Pop Clips on Nickelodeon
Duran Duran released Girls on Film On August 1, 1981, MTV: Music Television goes on the air for the first time ever, with the words (spoken by one of MTV’s creators, John Lack): “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll.” The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” was the first music video to air on the new cable television channel, which initially was available only to households in parts of New Jersey. MTV went on to revolutionize the music industry and become an influential source of pop culture and entertainment in the United States and other parts of the world, including Europe, Asia and Latin America, which all have MTV-branded channels.
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1983_____ |
"Thriller" is a single by American singer Michael Jackson. It was released as a single by Epic Records on January 23, 1984 as the seventh and final single from Jackson's sixth studio album of the same name. "Thriller" is a mix of disco and funk. The song was produced by Quincy Jones and was written by Rod Temperton who wanted to write a theatrical song to suit Jackson's love of film. The music and lyrics evoke horror films, with sound effects such as thunder, footsteps and wind. It ends with a spoken-word sequence performed by horror actor Vincent Price.
"Thriller" received positive reviews and became the album's seventh top-ten single on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number four. It reached the top of the charts in Belgium, France and Spain as well as the top 10 in many other countries. "Thriller" is certified 7x Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). In the week of Jackson's death in 2009, it was Jackson's bestselling track in the US, with sales of 167,000 copies on the Billboard Hot Digital Tracks chart. It charted on the Billboard Hot Digital Singles Chart at number two, and remained in the charts' top ten for three consecutive weeks. |
1984_____ |
The 1984 MTV Video Music Awards aired live on September 14, 1984. The inaugural ceremony honored the best music videos released between May 2, 1983 and May 2, 1984, and was hosted by Dan Aykroyd and Bette Midler at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
Herbie Hancock was the show's most awarded artist, taking home five awards, followed by Michael Jackson, who won three. The main award, Video of the Year, went to The Cars for "You Might Think". This was the first instance of only a few in the show's history where the video of the year did not win any other awards. Hancock's "Rockit" and The Police's "Every Breath You Take" were the most nominated videos, receiving eight nominations apiece. Cyndi Lauper was the most nominated artist of the night, with nine nods overall for two of her videos: six for "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", which eventually won the Best Female Video Moonman, and three for "Time After Time". |
1985_____ |
VH1 launched to rival MTV, who were taken over by Viacom Live Aid
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1986_____ |
"Money for Nothing" is a song by British rock band Dire Straits, the second track on their fifth studio album, Brothers in Arms (1985). It was released as the album's second single on 24 June 1985 through Vertigo Records. The song's lyrics are written from the point of view of two working-class men watching music videos and commenting on what they see. The song features a guest appearance by Sting singing background vocals, providing both the signature falsetto introduction and backing chorus of "I want my MTV." The groundbreaking video was the first to be aired on MTV Europe when the network launched on 1 August 1987.
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1987_____ |
"Sledgehammer" is a song by English rock musician Peter Gabriel. It was released as the lead single from his fifth studio album, So, on 21 April 1986. It was produced by Gabriel and Daniel Lanois. It reached No. 1 in Canada on 21 July 1986, where it spent four weeks; No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States on 26 July 1986; and No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart, thanks in part to its music video. It was his biggest hit in North America and ties with "Games Without Frontiers" as his biggest hit in the United Kingdom.
The song's music video won a record nine MTV Video Music Award at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards and Best British Video at the 1987 Brit Awards. The song also saw Gabriel nominated for three Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance, Record of the Year and Song of the Year. In a 2005 poll conducted by Channel 4 the music video was ranked second on their list of the 100 Greatest Pop Videos. |
1990_____ |
"Vogue" is a song by American singer Madonna from her second soundtrack album I'm Breathless (1990). "Vogue" is an upbeat house song which set trends in dance music in the 1990s with strong influences of 1970s disco within its composition. "Vogue" also contains a spoken section, in which Madonna name-checks various golden-era Hollywood celebrities. Lyrically, the song is about enjoying oneself on the dance floor no matter who one is, and it contains a theme of escapism. "Vogue" has appeared in a remixed form on two Madonna greatest hits collections: The Immaculate Collection (1990) and Celebration (2009).
The music video for "Vogue", directed by David Fincher, was shot in black-and-white and takes stylistic inspiration from the 1920s and 1930s. Madonna and her dancers can be seen voguing to different choreographed moves. The video has been ranked as one of the greatest of all time in different critic lists and polls and won three awards at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards out of a total of nine nominations. |
1994_____ |
"Everybody Hurts" is a song by American rock band R.E.M., originally released on the band's 1992 album Automatic for the People and also released as a single in 1993. It peaked at number 29 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and reached the top 10 on the charts of Australia, Canada, France, Iceland, the Netherlands, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. In 2003, Q magazine ranked "Everybody Hurts" at number 31 in their list of the "1001 Best Songs Ever". And in 2005, Blender ranked the song at number 238 in their list of "Greatest Songs Since You Were Born".
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1999_____ |
"Praise You" is a song by British big beat musician Fatboy Slim. It was released as the third single from his second studio album, You've Come a Long Way, Baby, in 1999. It reached number one on the UK Singles Chart and in Iceland, number four in Canada, number six in the Republic of Ireland and number 36 in the United States.
As of 1999 it has sold over 150,000 units in United States. |
Arctic Monkeys are an English rock band formed in Sheffield in 2002. The group consists of Alex Turner (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards), Jamie Cook (guitar, keyboards), Nick O'Malley (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Matt Helders (drums, backing vocals). Former band member Andy Nicholson (bass guitar, backing vocals) left the band in 2006 shortly after their debut album was released.
Arctic Monkeys were heralded as one of the first bands to come to public attention via the Internet, with commentators suggesting they represented the possibility of a change in the way in which new bands are promoted and marketed. Their debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006), became the fastest selling debut album in UK chart history, and has been hailed as one of the greatest debut albums. It won Best British Album at the 2007 Brit Awards. The band's second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007), also won Best British Album at the 2008 BRIT Awards. They went on to release Humbug (2009) and Suck It and See (2011). |
One Direction, is a five membered boy band group formed in 2010 and hit an indefinite hiatus in 2016. The members are Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlison, and Zayn Malik who left in March 2015. They started their career in the X-Factor 2010 “Groups” category. After the competition, the group signed Simon Cowell’s record label, “Syco Records”. As of 2020, the band have sold a total of 70 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling boy bands of all time. The band have won nearly 200 awards, including seven Brit Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, six Billboard Music Awards, seven American Music Awards (including Artist of the Year in 2014 and 2015), and 28 Teen Choice Awards. In 2013, they earned an estimated $75 million, becoming the second highest earning celebrity under 30 according to Forbes.
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